Revolution OS

Revolution OS
Promotional poster for two disc edition of Revolution OS
Directed by	J. T. S. Moore
Produced by	J. T. S. Moore
Written by	J. T. S. Moore
Starring	Richard Stallman Linus Torvalds Eric S. Raymond Bruce Perens
Music by	Christopher Anderson-Bazzoli
Edited by	J. T. S. Moore
Release date	2001
Running time	85 min
Country	United States
Language	English

Revolution OS is a 2001 documentary film that traces the twenty-year history of GNU, Linux, open source, and the free software movement.

Directed by J. T. S. Moore, the film features interviews with prominent hackers and entrepreneurs including Richard Stallman, Michael Tiemann, Linus Torvalds, Larry Augustin, Eric S. Raymond, Bruce Perens, Frank Hecker and Brian Behlendorf.

The film begins with glimpses of Raymond, a Linux IPO, Torvalds, the idea of Open Source, Perens, Stallman, then sets the historical stage in the early days of hackers and computer hobbyists when code was shared freely. It discusses how change came in 1978 as Bill Gates, in his Open Letter to Hobbyists, pointedly prodded hobbyists to pay up. Stallman relates his struggles with proprietary software vendors at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab, leading to his departure to focus on the development of free software, and the GNU project.

Torvalds describes the development of the Linux kernel, the GNU/Linux naming controversy, Linux's further evolution, and its commercialization.